Selection of artificial lift method

Abstract

For years, operating firms have used artificial lift optimization (ALO) technologies to boost oil and gas production. Notwithstanding these exceptional results in the oil business, conventional and unconventional gas wells have made little headway with an artificial lift. This is owing, in part, to the unavailability of artificial lift tools that can directly add energy to the gas to improve production and recoverability until now. Although wellhead compressors have proven to be helpful for operators, actual experience has demonstrated that these tools can accelerate liquid loading, especially in unconventional wells with a greater critical lifting velocity and lower production fluid density. As a result, productivity falls and early retirement occurs. Due to faster rates of decline than conventional wells, a growing proportion of unconventional shale oil and shale gas wells now contain artificial lift at the start of well production, even though mature wells are more frequently the recipients of artificial lift systems. Furthermore, field production can be increased by utilizing various ALO solutions at various stages of a well's production life. For example, to maximize estimated ultimate recovery (EUR), rod pump systems installed later in the well's life can be combined with the installation of a jet pump or an electric submersible pump (ESP) system during the early and transitional phases of the well's life, respectively. Evaluation of the initial artificial lift systems in place to find better ways to manufacture the existing assets and, as a result, strategies to optimize and reduce lifting costs for the operator. This method applies a number of filters to the user-supplied well, fluid, and field data, resulting in a summary page providing viable and preferable well specific artificial lift alternatives for future exploration. For the extraction of hydrocarbons from underground formations, a variety of production methods might be chosen. The built into energy found within the reservoir itself can be used to lift reservoir fluids to the surface, or artificial lift techniques can be used. The primary goal of this thesis work is to pick artificial lift technologies for hydrocarbon production in the ARC field in Mexico utilizing a customized computer software program. (called PROSPER).